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Satoko Tsushima (30 March 1947 – 18 February 2016), known by her pen name Yūko Tsushima (津島 佑子 Tsushima Yūko), was a Japanese fiction writer, essayist and critic. [1] Tsushima won many of Japan's top literary prizes in her career, including the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature , the Noma Literary New Face Prize , the Noma Literary ...
Yoru no Nezame (夜の寝覚, Wakefulness at Midnight) is a c. 11th century Japanese story. It is one of the major representative Heian period texts. It is a courtly romance and belongs to the tsukuri monogatari genre.
Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature.Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or lit.
Ukiyo-zōshi (浮世草子, "books of the floating world") is the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction, written between the 1680s and 1770s in Kyoto and Osaka. [1] Ukiyo-zōshi literature developed from the broader genre of kana-zōshi , books written in the katakana vernacular for enjoyment, and was initially classified as kana-zōshi ...
In their original appearance in the prefaces of the Kokin wakashū, the six rokkasen are not actually referred to with this term. [1]There are numerous phrases that show the conceptualization of these six as a cohesive group, but the term "Rokkasen" first appeared in an early Kamakura-period commentary on Kokin wakashū, titled Sanryūshō 三流抄.
The polymath Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer who was an Indian, became in 1913 the first Asian Nobel laureate.He won his Nobel Prize in Literature for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literatures of Europe and the Americas.
Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, ' Lady Murasaki '; c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese
Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei: Ochikubo Monogatari, Tsutsumi Chūnagon Monogatari (in Japanese). Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-060013-3. Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten: Kan'yakuban [A Comprehensive Dictionary of Classical Japanese Literature: Concise Edition]. Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. 1986. ISBN 4-00-080067-1. OCLC 22820487.